Subject to the sexism of her age, she nonetheless honed an original approach to her art, building a life around her passion for travel, friends, her sisters, and her refusal to forfeit her independent views. "Two decades before Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own," Mary Rogers Williams wrestled with the indignities of life as a professional woman artist. ~Marcia Ely, Executive Vice President, Brooklyn Historical Society Kahn's zealous detective work begs the question, how many other women, erased to history, await discovery?" "From a forgotten box of letters Eve Kahn meticulously stiches together the life, travels, work, opinions, humor and travails of Mary Rogers Williams. ~Katherine Manthorne, art historian, CUNY Graduate Center A rare woman's perspective on 19th century cosmopolitan life, it's a must-read." "Eve Kahn evocatively reconstructs Impressionist painter Mary Rogers Williams' life in a jaunty style fitting her upbeat, globe-trekking, paintbrush-wielding subject. Chapter 28: Logical Custodians in Chaotic Days.Chapter 27: Exquisite and Unerring Artistic Taste.Chapter 26: How Hard It Is for My Sisters.Chapter 25: Wild to Go Out on a Comet Hunt.Chapter 24: A Peaceful Comfortable Feeling.Chapter 21: Nervous Energy Spent Teaching.Chapter 18: Old Friends and Some New Ones.Chapter 16: A Serene and Confident Air.Chapter 15: Crisp and Free in Treatment.Chapter 14: The Most Magic House in the World.Chapter 12: To Exhibit in the Provincial Towns.Chapter 11: A Pastel Every Five Minutes.Chapter 10: Misfit in this Workaday World.Chapter 9: Strange and Beautiful Things.Chapter 8: He Certainly Is Unregenerate.Chapter 5: Her Boss's Jealous Mistress.Chapter 4: Conveying the Rudiments of Art.Chapter 3: No Salvation but by Hard Work.
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